The experience of watching Midnight Special was akin to eating 50 Oreos with a humongous glass of ice cold milk. In short, I loved every single second of this fantastic film, but I’m not too surprised, considering how Jeff Nichols has only made quality films, with his sophomore effort, Take Shelter, registering as a masterpiece…
Blue Line is an Action Thriller Directed by Jacob Cooney starring, Tom Sizemore, Jordan Ladd, Nikki Moore and Kevin Nash. The story revolves around Lindsay (Jordan Ladd) and her best friend Nicole who go on a crime spree to rob her husband and escape her marriage. Tom Sizemore plays a jittery detective who is hot…
I am shocked and confused by how little respect was paid to Peter Landesman’s confident, important, and all together sad true life story Concussion, which documents the mostly futile attempts by the brilliant Dr. Bennet Omalu to wake the NFL up to a massive health issue, played in a nearly career topping performance by Will…
It was that time of year again as the Birmingham NEC opens its doors once again to let the hoard of cosplay, comic and film fans flood the halls. MCM Comic Con 2016 Review This year MCM had a very subtle build up to it’s Birmingham show. I remember being so hyped by the fact…
10 Cloverfield Lane is a fun and effective chiller that is disingenuously positioning itself as a sequel or side-quel or whatever you want to call it to Matt Reeves’ multiple genre-busting 2008 film Cloverfield. Much has been made about how Dan Trachtenberg’s 10 Cloverfield Lane originated as a totally separate project, having nothing to do…
Triple 9 is my kind of movie. But I expected that. This is a John Hillcoat film. Hillocat has only made movies that I have loved. The Proposition, The Road, Lawless, and now this nasty, 70’s-flavored cop film that has streaks of Lumet while possessing a stylish and modern aesthetic hand. Matt Cook’s hard boiled…
I’m not a horror movie guy. They don’t scare me, I’m always aware of cinematic artifice, and I find most attempts at “scary movies” to be cheap and obvious and boring. The Witch, however, is a cut above the genre competition, despite not really being the film I expected to see and avoiding certain horror…
The Lost Tree revolves around Noah who after a serious traumatic accident, leaves his old life behind and moves to an isolated cabin to start over but soon learns about the sinister past of his new surroundings. Instantly the movie visually looks like a drama piece, and depicts it’s surroundings to match the tone and…
The Feast of Varanasi centres around a spate of gruesome killings, where four young girls have been burned to death. Beyond the capabilities of the local police force, a CBI officer from New Delhi is sent to investigate. For officer Arjun Das (Adil Hussain, LIFE OF PI, THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST), it’s a return to his…
Listed as the world’s first selfie movie #Starvecrow is an impactful insight into the lives of ordinary folk, portrayed by actors as they improv and guide their own way through a story of their own making. The film is part of a genre known as Hypereal, the genre consists of Indie feature films that look…
The Revenant, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s aggressively masterful new wilderness epic, is the true definition of a consummate big-screen experience. Comparisons to Apocalypse Now, Aguirre, The Wrath of God, Jeremiah Johnson, Deliverance, and so many others before it are apt and fair; even after only one viewing, I feel confident in saying that this film belongs…
There are very few horror locations able to live up to the unsettling air that surrounds the “little house on the prairie”. The claustrophobic density of trees engulfing a cabin in the woods is one thing but there’s nothing quite like the vast plains reaching out to horizon, impenetrable walls of crops for miles around…
So the NEW Morphsuits animated Christmas Jumper selection has arrived just in time for Save The Children’s Christmas Jumper Day on December 18th! We managed to get our hands on one thanks to the awesome staff over at Morphsuits. Look Stylish in your Animated Christmas Jumper Using the latest Digital Dudz jumper technology, this brand…
Ted is back in the sequel that no-one was particularly begging for, as its distinctly average figures at the US Box Office will attest. Sharing the meandering style of plot, Seth MacFarlane’s follow-up is even less consistent than its predecessor, weakly structured across nearly 2 hours of run time. To call the narrative “thin” is…
I’m always wholly fascinated by this film, and it’s something I feel that’s worth revisiting every year because of how it uses aesthetics to drive the plot. Boarding Gate is genre-hopper Olivier Assayas (Carlos, Summer Hours, Irma Vep) doing a sort-of Michael Mann-esque anti-thriller that’s more cerebral than crammed with action. It’s the kind of…
Side Effects is a slick, smart, and deceptively layered thriller from Steven Soderbergh and writer Scott Z. Burns, who before this under the radar gem crafted the irreverent comedic masterwork The Informant! Side Effects is an extremely stylish head game that loves toying with the audience at all times, and it also happens to be…
